Championship Teams in the "WRONG UNIFORM"

[Germanshepherd]

https://imgur.com/EVgNk72

 

Baylor won 2021 March Madness in anthracite. 

 

Sorry for the link, but images for whatever reason don't upload for me. 

 

 

 

[Chromatic]

On 6/15/2022 at 4:28 PM, TalktoChuck said:

 

Which Canucks look would be the right one?

The Orca

[ujju2]

On 6/15/2022 at 3:01 PM, kimball said:

Edmonton Oilers, 2006 Stanley Cup Finalist

 

 

These may be the "wrong" uniforms, but they're beloved here in Edmonton, almost as much as the royal blue. Nobody in Edmonton sees these as the wrong uniforms.

[Cujo]

Folks will look back at this one..

 

[dont care]

9 hours ago, Cujo said:

Folks will look back at this one..

 

If they make that their primary as what has been reported then it won’t be.

[slapshot]

On 6/27/2022 at 5:51 PM, LMU said:

The 1975 red-hatted Red Sox.

 

 

Of the Red Sex four post-2000 World Series championships, 2 were in gray road uniforms, one was in the white home set, and then there's this...

 

Also weird to see...in game 7 of the ALCS (the Aaron F'n Boone game), home plate umpire Tim McClelland wore a light gray shirt. As an umpire, that's also jarring to see.

[Echo]

19 hours ago, slapshot said:

Red Sex

 

[Germanshepherd]

Still can’t believe the 108 year curse was broken in these unnecessary duds. 

[GrayJ12]

4 hours ago, Germanshepherd said:

Still can’t believe the 108 year curse was broken in these unnecessary duds. 

This is still leagues better than the abomination that is their current road uniforms. The fact that they haven't changed the road unis in almost 25 years still boggles my mind, considering that it is (IMO) the worst road uniform in baseball. Now let's hope the next time they win a WS, it will be with good road uni's like this: 

[BBTV]

On 8/3/2022 at 11:46 AM, Germanshepherd said:

Still can’t believe the 108 year curse was broken in these unnecessary duds. 

 

It really is a shame.  It would have been a million times worse had they won it in home in those tops.  That would have been a true disgrace.

 

On 8/3/2022 at 4:23 PM, GrayJ12 said:

This is still leagues better than the abomination that is their current road uniforms. The fact that they haven't changed the road unis in almost 25 years still boggles my mind, considering that it is (IMO) the worst road uniform in baseball. Now let's hope the next time they win a WS, it will be with good road uni's like this: 

 

This is a joke right?  While their current road unis aren't flashy, they're miles ahead of the "Cuba" uniforms that featured 1) an unnecessary red-brimmed cap, and 2) a 4-letter script which is entirely too short of a word to look even a little bit professional on a baseball uniform.

[GrayJ12]

14 hours ago, BBTV said:

 

It really is a shame.  It would have been a million times worse had they won it in home in those tops.  That would have been a true disgrace.

 

 

This is a joke right?  While their current road unis aren't flashy, they're miles ahead of the "Cuba" uniforms that featured 1) an unnecessary red-brimmed cap, and 2) a 4-letter script which is entirely too short of a word to look even a little bit professional on a baseball uniform.

A) That would had been the worst timeline to live in. It's like a deal with the devil. "Your team will finally win the WS, but they will win it with the most disliked alternate uniform in baseball".

 

B)You're right, the red-brimmed cap was awful, but ANY road uni that the Cubs have had before '97 is better than what they have right now. 

[Germanshepherd]

I mean what the Cubs have now is kinda bland but at least it’s not actively bad like the Cuba digs. I don’t see what there is to strongly dislike about the current roads. 

[VikWings]

The current road jerseys are definitely better than those awful CUBS alternates they wore a few years ago

 

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[dont care]

Wait what’s wrong with the cubs current away jersey? Anyone who thinks the Cuba set is better needs to have their eyes checked. 

[Crabcake]

And this is my first time hearing that people strongly dislike the blue alt. It’s not flashy but I think it’s a tasteful alternate for such a classic franchise. 

[Germanshepherd]

3 hours ago, Crabcake said:

And this is my first time hearing that people strongly dislike the blue alt. It’s not flashy but I think it’s a tasteful alternate for such a classic franchise. 

It’s not a terrible look in and of itself. The cub logo is well-designed, but I don’t think it looks as good on the front as the Cubs circle logo would. 
 

I just think it’s a step down and doesn’t emit the same classic Chicago feeling the traditional home/roads do. Although if you have to have an alt to wear sparingly in the regular season, I can live with it. 
 

However, that uniform should be nowhere near the culmination of the greatest baseball story of my lifetime.  I don’t know if we’ll see a baseball game with that high of stakes ever again, and the heroes didn’t quite look like themselves for it, which is shameful. 
 

Also, their opponent was in Navy blue, creating an AWFUL color clash. Not to mention that one logo being plastered all over everything which already looks horrendous in hindsight. A truly classic game in every sense but the uniform department. 

[AnPheitseog]

10 hours ago, Crabcake said:

And this is my first time hearing that people strongly dislike the blue alt. It’s not flashy but I think it’s a tasteful alternate for such a classic franchise. 

In itself, it's not a bad jersey. It's just so much of a lesser jersey than their home and roads.

I also dont see how that particular jersey enhances the set or tries something new.

[Ferdinand Cesarano]

On 6/27/2022 at 5:51 PM, LMU said:

The 1975 red-hatted Red Sox.

 

 

For me the objection is not the hat, but the uniforms.  Indeed, the red-crowned hat (with reversed white-on-blue logo) looked pretty nice when worn with the current uniforms.  The problem is those horrible pullovers — which also looked bad with the traditional blue cap.

 

Pullovers and waistbands were bad for most teams (for all teams except the A's and Pirates); but for the Red Sox this was a marring of a beautiful traditional look.  (And I say that as someone who hates the Red Sox.)  The Red Sox are one of several traditional teams which had no business even thinking of experimenting with pullovers.

 

Another is the Cardinals, World Champs in 1982, and NL champs in 1985 and 1987.

 

Yet another is the Cubs, NL East champs in 1984 and 1989.

 

 

These latter two teams looked especially goofy in their road uniforms, which for the Cardinals was powder blue (a colour now inexplicably seen as acceptable once again) and for the Cubs was royal blue (with white pants yet).

 

These three teams have timeless looks that should be considered as untouchable as that of the Yankees.  While it's good that all these teams have returned to those looks, the fact that their periods of error are immortalised by championships is truly unfortunate.

 

Another big one is the Reds, World Champs in 1975 and 1976.

 

 

 

What is frustrating is that the budding Big Red Machine had won the pennant in 1970 in a much more dignified buttondown/belted version of this uniform.

 

 

For any of these traditional teams to have adopted the pullovers and beltless pants was unfortunate.  At least the Tigers had the decency to maintain their timeless traditional home uniform, and to restrict the use of pullovers and waistbands to the road uniform.  
 

[ManillaToad]

The 1949 Rams made the championship game in the one-off season where they switched from the blue-yellow color scheme to red-yellow. Other than their inaugural season in 1937, this is the only year they wore red

 

 

 

Colorized picture from the title game against the Eagles (it was a mud bowl)

 

[TheBigFiz21]

On 8/3/2022 at 11:46 AM, Germanshepherd said:

Still can’t believe the 108 year curse was broken in these unnecessary duds. 

I'm more on the side of this feeling wrong only because the Cubs had to clinch on the road instead of at home. If this series goes down the same way with Game 7 at Wrigley, rest assured they are wearing their classic home white.

 

Even then, I don't feel that this was as bad as say, the 2016 Cavs in black when clinching their title, for instance.

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I do have one recent pick that I wish went differently: 2022 Astros. Personally, it feels weird to see them win the title with what began as a BP jersey and is now a glorified alternate instead of putting on their home white or the orange alternate.